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Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC (Massachusetts) is funded by 26 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $1,965,121 in grants to it, the largest being BOSTON AFTER SCHOOL & BEYOND INC ($413,222). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC's revenue fell 22% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,219 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 2% · . Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$5k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $460k and 3 in 2017.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 26 funders by total. Association, not causation.
PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 45% · 2019 41% · 2020 39% · 2021 33% · 2022 37% · 2023 35% · 2024 40% · 2025 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
38% of PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC is locally rooted: 80% of its grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
50% of spending goes to programs.
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 26funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing